Merry Me at the Christmas Market

She ran away from the perfect wedding. Straight back to the boy she never really forgot.Calla Montgomery has planned hundreds of beautiful events.Including the wedding she can't make herself walk into.Two hundred guests are waiting. Her successful, perfectly suitable fiancé is standing at the altar. Her mother has planned every detail down to the two thousand hand-sewn snowflakes on Calla's dress.Everything is perfect.Everything is wrong.So Calla runs.By nightfall, she's back in Laurel Ridge for the first time in nearly ten years-and literally crashing into Griffin Whitaker beneath the Christmas lights.Griffin was her first love.Her almost.The boy she left behind when ambition took her to Atlanta-and the man who never asked her to stay.Now Calla needs somewhere to hide from the wreckage of the life she just detonated, and Griffin has a guesthouse he absolutely should not offer her.Christmas has other ideas.A wedding crisis at the Laurel Ridge Christmas Market keeps pulling them together, forcing Calla to question what she actually wants-and Griffin to confront the mistake he made ten years ago.Because loving someone quietly isn't always enough.Sometimes you have to ask.Sometimes you have to answer.And sometimes the wedding that falls apart is the one that finally teaches you what saying yes is supposed to mean.Because the right love story isn't perfect. It's chosen.This was originally published as Merry Me, part of the A Charm of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it has been rewritten and expanded for Love in Laurel Ridge